Machine Gun Man Lyrics

Machine Gun Man lyrics

Tell me what a young man Mama

 What's he got to live for

 Tossed in the shuffle of everyday war

 Searchin' for some trouble

 Which I'm sure he will find

 Spend your whole life fightin' son

 Meet your dyin' time 

 

 It's a shame

 It's a shame

 The trigger be his only friend

 It's a shame, oh yeh

 But it ain't never gonna end 

 

 He's a pocketful of hate

 That don't give a damn

 What fate awaits the machine gun man?

 Well, he ain't got no future

 And he ain't got no plan

 What fate awaits the machine gun man? 

 

 I can't see tomorrow

 And I don't see today

 Trail of confusion done leadin' my way

 They say the only thing worth killin' Lord

 Be killin' time

 I say the only soul worth savin' now Mama

 Resavin' mine 

 

 It's a shame

 It's a shame

 The trigger be his only friend

 It's a shame, oh yeh

 But it ain't never gonna end 

 

 He's a pocketful of hate

 That don't give a damn

 What fate awaits the machine gun man?

 Well, he ain't got no future

 And he ain't got no plan

 What fate awaits the machine gun man? 

 

 He keeps shootin' mama like any old fool would do

 Lord, the life he be leadin' ain't the one he has to choose

 As he walks on out that door

 Mama breaks down to cry

 As she waves the machien gun man

 Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye...